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Ithaca

One message will change everything.

5.3

2015•1h 36m

In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

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Cast

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Sam Shepard

Willie Grogan

Photo of Hamish Linklater

Hamish Linklater

Tom Spangler

Photo of Alex Neustaedter

Alex Neustaedter

Homer

Photo of Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan

Mrs. Macauley

Photo of Jack Quaid

Jack Quaid

Marcus Macauley

Photo of Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Mr. Macauley

Photo of Lucia Scarano

Lucia Scarano

Rosa Sandoval

Photo of Zachary Webber

Zachary Webber

Horse

Photo of Lois Robbins

Lois Robbins

Mrs. Beaufrere

Photo of Cait Moira

Cait Moira

Helen Eliot

Photo of Gabriel Basso

Gabriel Basso

Tobey George

Photo of Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon

Mary Arena

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